blue-ribbonism
now historical
noun
(Also with capital initials) the beliefs and practices of those temperance movements whose members wear the blue ribbon; (more generally) temperance, teetotalism.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Wrexham (Wales) Advertiser.
- phototelegraphy
- phototelephony
- photo-telescope
- phototheodolite
- phototherapeutic
- phototherapeutic keratectomy
- phototherapeutics
- phototherapy
- photothermic
- phototimer
- phototonic
- phototopographer
- phototopographic
- phototopographical
- phototopography
- phototoxic
- phototoxicity
- phototransduction
- phototransformation
- phototransient
- phototransistor
- phototrope
- phototroph
- phototrophic
- phototrophy